Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-18
Men Stand up Under Great Trials and
CaIamities- They Face Them
and Conquer by Courage.
The Singing Petty Vacations of Hourly
Occurrence Break Men and We
men Down and They Die.
The Punct1res of the Insects OF ID ally Trials
s. sent 10 Strengthen Us and Give Us
Patience under Mighty woes.
Special to the Gazette.

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gave cut the hymn beginning:
I Must Jesus bear the cross alone,
(, And AL the world go free
No! there's a cross for eyc-y one,
{. And there's a cross for me.
( The subject of his discourse was Sting
| ing Annoyances, AMI his text, DeuteronO-
fmy vii, 20: "The Lord thy God
viii send the hornet" He said:
It seems as if the insect world were
! determined to war against the human
race. 1t is every year attacking the grain
4 fields and the orchards and the vineyards.
/ The Colorado beetle, the Nebraska grass
hopper, the New Jersey locust, the uni
velsaI p0tatoe destroyer, seem 10 carry
/ on the work which was begun ages ago
when the insects buzZed out CT NOAH 5
ark as the door was opened.
! In my text the hornet flies out on its
mission. ItIs
A SPECIES OF WASP,
swift in it's motion and violent in It's
sting. Its touch is torture to man or
! beast. We have all seen the cattle run
believing from the cut Of its lancet. In
! boyhood we used TO stand cautiously
! looking at the globular nest hung from
the tree branch, and while we were
! looking al the wonderful paste-board
covering we were struck with something
that sent US shrieking away. The hornet
goes in sWarms. 1t hSs captains over
hundreds, and twenty Of them attacking
one man will produce certain death. The
Persians attempted TO conquer q Christian
city, but the elephants ana the beasts on
WhCS the PeTsians rode were assaulted
by the hornet, so that the whole army
YVES broken up and the besieged city was
rescued. This burning and nOXiOuS in
sect scuDg out the Hittites and Canaan
ties from their country. What the gleam
ing sword and chariot Of war could not
accomplish was done by the pUnCture Of
an insect. The Lord sent the hornet.
My friends when we are assaulted by
behemoths Of acknowledgement behemOths
of trOu5ie-We become chivalric, and We
assault them; we ct On TIE high-mettIed
steed Of our courage, aud make cavalry
charge at them, ana, il God be With Us,
we come out stronger aud better than
when we went in. But, alas for .hese II
seCtile annCy8nces Of Lfe-these foes too
small TO SnoUt-tbese things without any
avoirdupois Weight-the glats, and the
midges, and the flies, aud the waSps, ana
the hornets. In other words, it is the small
singing annOyanCeS Of our our life which
pest conditioned life, for some grand and
glorious purpose, God sends the hornet.
Iremark in the first place, that t5ese
small singing annoyances may come in
the shape of sensitive nervous organ
ization. People who are Frustrated
under
TYPHOID FEVERS
or with broken bones get plenty Of sym
patny, but who pities anybody that is
nervous? The doctor says, and the fam
lily says, and everybody says, "Oh! she's
only little neTvOus-that's ALL" The
sound of heavy foot, the harsh clearing
OF q throat, discOrd in music, want OF
harmony between the shawl and the
glove on the same person, curt answer,
passing slight, the wind from the east,
any one of 10000 annOyances, opens the
door for the hornet. The fact is that the
vast majority of the people in this
country are Oyer-wOrKed, and their
nerves are the first to give out. A great
multitude are under the strain of Leydep,
who, when he was told by his physician
that if he did not stop working while he
was in such poor physical health he
would die, responded, doctor, whether
l life or die the wheel must keep going
around" These persons of whom /
speak have bleeding constituencies. The
flies love to light on anything raw, aud
these people are Ike the Canaanites
spoken of in the text or in the context
they nave very thin covering and are
Vulnerable at all points. And the Lord
sent the hornet.
Again, these small insect annoyances
may come to US in the shape OF friends
and acquaintance who are always saying
diSagree8be things. There are some
people you cannot be with for half en-
hour but you feel Cheered and Comtorted.
Then there are other people you cannot
be with for five minutes before you feel
miserable. They do not mean TO dis
turb you, but they sting you to the bone
They gather up all the yarn which the
gossips spin, and peddle 1t. They gather
up all the adverse criticisms
ABOUT YOUR PERSON,
about your business, about your home,
about your church, and they make sou
ear the funnel into which they pour It,
They laugh heartily when they tell you,
as though 1t were good joke, and you
laugh toO-outside. These people are
brought to our attention in the Bible, in
the Book of Ruth: Naomi went forth
beautiful and with the finest of worldly
prospects into another land, but after
awhile she came back widowed, and sick,
and poor. What did her friends do when
she came back to the city? They all went
out, and, instead of giving her common
sense consolation, what did they do?
Read the Book of Ruth and find out. They
threw up their hands and said, "Is this
NaOmI?" as much as to say, chow very
bad you Iook!" When | entered the
ministry looked very pale for years, and
every year, for four or five years,
100 times year was asked if was not
in consumption. And passing through
the room l would sometimes hear people
sigh and cry, "A-ah! not long for this
world"' l resolved in those times that
never, in any conversation, would say
anything depressing, and by the help of
God | hSVe kept the resolution. These
people of whom | speak reap and bind in
the great harvest field of disbursement.
Some days you greet them with hilarious
"GOod morning." and they come buZzing
at you With some depressing information. !
The Lord sent the hornet. 1t is aston
ishing how some people prefer to write |
and to say disegreeable things. That |
was the case when years ago Henry NJ |
Stanley returned after his magnificent |
exploit OF finding Dr.. David Livingstone, !
and when Mr.. Stanley stood before the !
SayGnts of Europe, and many of the
SMALL CRITICS
OF the day, under pretense of getting geo
graphical information, put to him most
nsCIent questions he folded his
arms and refused to answer. At the
very time when you would suppose all
iecent men would have applauded the
leroism of the man, there we're those to
liss. The Lord sent the hornet And